Understanding how cells become fat cells is a crucial part of tackling conditions like obesity and type 2 diabetes – and a ...

Our immune system spans two worlds - innate and adaptive. Innate immune cells are like troops at the gate ready to hold off invaders and raise the body's alarms. Adaptive immune cells are specialists ...

Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play several major roles in the body's defense against cancers like renal cell carcinoma. Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play ...

Cells that are about to die send a signal to an executioner protein, but sometimes, those cells can fight back and regenerate ...

A new discovery about how cells communicate with each other in the body's immune system has revealed deeper insights for an ...

Two American biologists have won this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering a crucial way genes are regulated. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has the details. ROB STEIN, ...

Scientists report that the ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

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Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.